Safari>New Window=DOESN'T WORK!

I'm on my second Apple notebook now. I had an iBook G4 for 2 years then just recently upgraded to the 13" Macbook w/ Leopard. Everything has been fine except for one little nuance. From the get go I have not been able to use any of the options that pop up when you hold down the Safari icon in the dock. "Quit" works, but "New Window" does nothing. Also, if I have multiple Safari windows open, and I hold-click the icon to highlight another page in the background, nothing happens, the page isn't brought to the front.

I have tried updating my software numerous times to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this problem is occuring? Or what I can do to fix it? Thanks!

-Dante

 

3.0.4

 

Seriously? Doesn't anyone have any help to offer?

 

Is that just another type of Browser?

And I kinda doubt that it's due to Safari becuase I haven't heard of this happening to anyone else.

 

I downloaded Webkit and removed the preferences file, both to no avail. Wow this is an annoying problem, albeit small. Thanks for the help though, man.

EDIT: Ok, so I didn't realize that you could open Webkit up as a browser at first. So now I'm browsing with it and the "New Window" option is working. But is this not Safari? Haha, please excuse me for my ignorance of Webkit, I was under the impression that it updated Safari, I didn't realize it was it's own browser. But thank you because all seems well now.

 

Does Webkit update itself or do I need to download the new update every night?